Make Every Day Beautiful with Mjölk's Latest Designs

When John Baker and Juli Daoust travel, they often have extraordinary experiences: sharing a meal with a renowned glass artist in Sweden, collecting 400-year-old pottery shards from a river in Japan. But two weeks into a recent trip, Baker recalls, “I said to Juli, ‘I want to get back to our day-to-day life.’ Not the special parts; just the everyday.” Quotidian moments inspire their Toronto shop, Mjölk (pronounced mi-yelk; it means “milk” in Swedish), which focuses on Scandinavian and Japanese designs, many handcrafted by Ontario artisans with local materials. “We try to create things you get pleasure using every day,” Baker says—cups, kettles, watering cans. The couple’s apartment above the shop shows their philosophy in action. Here’s a look inside. store.mjolk.ca.